What fictional character's death had the biggest effect on you?

retro:electro · 20-09-2017 11:15AM

Danny in American History X

bottlebrush · 20-09-2017 11:19AM

Nidge

Lollipops23 · 20-09-2017 11:23AM

Charlie in the Newsroom. As soon as he said he'd be right back, I knew.

Heartbreaker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WqYsqR1myY

Richard Hillman · 20-09-2017 11:26AM

Fletch in Dream Team

branie2 · 20-09-2017 12:06PM

Spock in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

TheIrishGrover · 20-09-2017 12:20PM

Lee Scoresby/Hester in His Dark Materials: The Subtle Knife

What was also very well done was Buffy's mother (It's years old so tough

). No fantasy element (Mostly). All the reactions from Buffy's friends was spot on. The lack of music throughout really lays on the tension.

The fight with the vampire at the end was brilliantly done: Stripping away the music and witticisms really highlighted how silly the premise is without undermining it.

snowgal · 20-09-2017 12:22PM

Hershel

in the Walking Dead...Such a 'nooooooooooooooooooooo' moment!

snowgal · 20-09-2017 12:23PM

also Jack in Home and Away. I dont know why. For weeks after I was really hoping it was a stupid Home and Away twist and he'd be back...I kinda still do. why!

bottlebrush · 20-09-2017 12:25PM

Vito in the sopranos.

never_mind · 20-09-2017 12:26PM

Buffy in season 5. WAHHHHHHH

COH · 20-09-2017 12:30PM

Marley

elbyrneo · 20-09-2017 12:43PM

LadyMacBeth_ wrote: »

Bubba and Jenny dying in Forrest Gump.

And Mrs Gump (Sally Field)

bnt · 20-09-2017 12:57PM

Another vote for Lt.Col Henry Blake in M*A*S*H, partly for the way it was handled: no drama or histrionics, just Radar relaying the message as calmly as he could. The shock came from the way he left, all happy to be going home and everyone happy for him - and the cast only found out as they were filming.

meeeeh · 20-09-2017 01:23PM

Last episode of Mash was harrowing. Hawkeye remembering the woman on the bus who suffocated the chicken because it's noise put them in danger and then the realization that she actually suffocated her own child.

farmerwifelet · 20-09-2017 02:16PM

M*A*S*H the musicians Charles was conducting music with in the final episode. They were killed just before the ceasefire - truly pointless deaths.

Mrs Landingham - The West Wing so unexpected.

Leo McGarry (John Spencer) The West Wing The actor has a heart attack and passed away. It was very nicely handled.

Spock in Star Trek II

Rue in The Hunger Games.

New Home · 24-09-2017 07:39PM

Hannibal_Smith wrote: »

Adam Carter - Spooks. Although you could never take a character for granted in that show because they would kill them with wanton abandon, but Adam dying was the most jaw dropping, unexpected death that I never saw coming. I was full sure there was still hope even when his comm link went dead :pac:

And Ruth?? Ruth's death broke my heart.

:(:(

Greybottle · 24-09-2017 07:45PM

Can't remember the film or TV programme, but it's an old black and white Lassie one, where a dog is beaten or kicked to death. Saw it when I was 6 or so and haven't tolerated any form of animal cruelty since.

The lads being killed (presumably) at the end of Blackadder IV made me see the stupidity of war. Well that and near the end of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly where Eastwood gives a dying soldier a last pull from a cigar.

qhe0i9zvfgdou8 · 24-09-2017 07:49PM

Kenny

pumpkin4life · 24-09-2017 08:00PM

Tony Soprano

Riddle101 · 24-09-2017 08:24PM

As others have said the final scene of Blackadder Goes Forth. That's another one of mine because we see a grim scene in an otherwise humorous comedy. We see the lads getting ready for the push, and their humanity is shown more. Lieutenant George says that he's scared despite his usual upbeat naivety that he usually shows, Captain Darling who was always portrayed as a twat says that he hoped to return home and marry his sweetheart and we see a sympathetic side to him, then Baldrick says that he has a cunning plan but Captain Blackadder already knows they're all most likely going to the death so he say it will have to wait. And of course, the image of them going over the trench. Such a great ending though.

fryup · 24-09-2017 08:36PM

Quasimodo from the novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

the poor guy forced to live the life of a hermit in a bell tower because of the way he looks....then in the end dies for love

New Home · 24-09-2017 08:37PM

Cyrano de Bergerac, too!

New Home · 24-09-2017 08:37PM

And one of the older waitresses in Frankie and Johnny.

Dave0JV · 24-09-2017 10:04PM

Manchee in the novel 'The Knife of Never Letting Go' by Patrick Ness. Turns out I'm as sad when a dog dies in a book as in a movie

Belle E. Flops · 24-09-2017 10:04PM

Another vote for Dobby.

There was a good few sad deaths in the Harry Potter series but it was the death of Sirius Black that broke my heart.

farmerwifelet · 24-09-2017 10:06PM

Tiny tim in the muppets christmas carol.

MonkieSocks · 24-09-2017 10:10PM

bnt wrote: »

Another vote for Lt.Col Henry Blake in M*A*S*H, partly for the way it was handled: no drama or histrionics, just Radar relaying the message as calmly as he could. The shock came from the way he left, all happy to be going home and everyone happy for him - and the cast only found out as they were filming.

+ 1

Very sad, that was

Lorelli! · 24-09-2017 10:12PM

Tommy in Trainspotting

honeybear · 24-09-2017 10:13PM

Great thread

osarusan · 24-09-2017 10:29PM

Sydney Carton: It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

What fictional character's death had the biggest effect on you?

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